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... become a Protestant country ( though there remained a large Roman Catholic area in the Highlands ) its destiny became more closely linked with Protestant England and separated from Catholic France , Scotland's traditional ally ; English ...
... become a Protestant country ( though there remained a large Roman Catholic area in the Highlands ) its destiny became more closely linked with Protestant England and separated from Catholic France , Scotland's traditional ally ; English ...
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... becomes increasingly impossible to disentangle godliness from the most abandoned self - indulgence , and in the confusion the creed of election and predestination becomes monstrous . The poem ends in the same stately organ tones with ...
... becomes increasingly impossible to disentangle godliness from the most abandoned self - indulgence , and in the confusion the creed of election and predestination becomes monstrous . The poem ends in the same stately organ tones with ...
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... become of the Burns tradition . A coyly self- conscious emphasis on sensibility as such , a cloying cosiness of tone , a false sugaring over of the realities of experience with stock sentimental situations , all done in a vernacular ...
... become of the Burns tradition . A coyly self- conscious emphasis on sensibility as such , a cloying cosiness of tone , a false sugaring over of the realities of experience with stock sentimental situations , all done in a vernacular ...
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